Unable to apply publish properties?

Question

I don\'t know what caused Visual Studio to start thinking it needs to publish my project, but now whenever I build it, I get several \"Unable to apply publish properties for

Answer 1

In Project Properties > Publish > Application Files...

If you click "Show All" you will see that some items have a yellow exclamation mark indicating that those files are no longer referenced. Just delete these entries.

Answer 2

Open your project, select Project Properties->Publish(ing)->Application Files and click the reset all button. Does that help?